I'm a PhD candidate in comparative literature, and sometimes write for the internet about arts and culture.
Destruction of Man is among other things a savage, tender bestiary, a teeming universe in which the human figures as only one among countless symbiotic vital actors.
When the Buffalo experimental duo Cages performed at Silo City in June, there was a moment where a trill of birdsong splashed over the music, and I couldn't tell whether the sound was part of the show or a spontaneous interruption from the wildlife outside.
Cooler is a rising Buffalo indie band whose self-proclaimed genre is "2002 Redux/Phantom Phuzz." The first part gives a pretty solid picture of the kinds of pop-punk and emo heartstring tugging you can expect from their songs, while the second part allows for some mystery: it might be the spectral shimmer added by the fuzz-pedal distortion they favor, or a playful statement of emancipation from any pre-defined genre, or both, or something harder to name.
How does a design duo make a singular vision? George and Glenn of Yabu Pushelberg compare notes on combining aesthetics with Lars and Jan of Linteloo.
Every New Yorker has an apartment-living horror story. Here's mine.
Budding vocal talent SZA talks about her rebellious tendencies.
Janine Rostron aka Planningtorock is an enigmatic musician, but she says "It's never about hiding; it's always about, sort of, adding to what I already am, or what I've already got."
If you're already gagging on the pine-scented memory of awkward campfire sing-alongs, whiskey-sipping Brooklyn twenty-somethings in flannel, and your parents dancing to Cat Stevens, consider the following before you say anything you can't take back..
An urban apiarist explains why bees are a "gateway livestock" and how others can get into the honey game.